Yeovil

[Napper]

Just noticed they are bottom of League 2.

Small club but considering were in the championship season before last that is quite a fall.

What happened to them ? Did they just flog off all their half decent players ?

Shame , Thought they were a good addition to the championship . Fans were decent too.

Hope they sort it out

 

[Postman Pat]

There was an article on Sky Sports News on Saturday morning saying that a couple of years ago Leicester were struggling to a 0-0 draw against Yeovil, fast forward 2 years and Leicester are top of the prem and Yeovil are bottom of League 2.

BBC were asking much the same question: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34693161

 

[Danny-Boy]

There was an article on Sky Sports News on Saturday morning saying that a couple of years ago Leicester were struggling to a 0-0 draw against Yeovil, fast forward 2 years and Leicester are top of the prem and Yeovil are bottom of League 2.

BBC were asking much the same question: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34693161

I saw the play-off Final at Wembley in 2013 (was it?) when they beat Brentford 2-1. Nearly all the town was there, they packed out one end of Wembley.

Unfortunately none of them had the financial clout to get good enough players to keep them for more than one season in the Championship, they've been in free-fall ever since. This is not new, I can remember Northampton had one season in the old Div.1 back in the early 1960's, in about 3 seasons they were back in Div 4!

 

[BensGrandad]

Sacking Gary Johnson and replacing him with Terry Skiverton started the rot perhaps they should have pushed the boat out to get Nathan Jones. Paul Sturrock is a creditable manager so it is probably down to the wages they pay that they cannot sign any better players. Selling Luke Ayling didnt help they should have replaced him with Adam El Abd as part ex. Perhaps they need to look at Sturrock and replace him with Holloway who knows the players etc to bring in to keep them in the FL.

 

[bhanutz]

Sacking Gary Johnson and replacing him with Terry Skiverton started the rot perhaps they should have pushed the boat out to get Nathan Jones. Paul Sturrock is a creditable manager so it is probably down to the wages they pay that they cannot sign any better players. Selling Luke Ayling didnt help they should have replaced him with Adam El Abd as part ex. Perhaps they need to look at Sturrock and replace him with Holloway who knows the players etc to bring in to keep them in the FL.

You should be a manager! you seem to know your onions!

 

[Danny-Boy]

You should be a manager! you seem to know your onions!

Yes Ollie's head does look like an onion in a certain light..

 

[Easy 10]

Without doubt the worst away trip on the calendar, so I wasn't too sorry to see them relegated from the Championship. Shocking collapse since then though, they just haven't been able to arrest that downward spiral. Sturrocks got his work cut out there.

 

[SAC]

It's what happens when you don't have a rich benefactor able to bank-roll the club. They get decent attendances considering but when the total population of Yeovil is only around 40,000 you are always going to be an uphill struggle.

 

[Napper]

There was an article on Sky Sports News on Saturday morning saying that a couple of years ago Leicester were struggling to a 0-0 draw against Yeovil, fast forward 2 years and Leicester are top of the prem and Yeovil are bottom of League 2.

BBC were asking much the same question: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34693161

Cheers for that.

Reading that really lets you know how special and hard to compete the championship is.

 

[Notters]

They're currently submitting plans for improvements to Huish Park too, including extra income to come from residential and retail developments. (I've been working on the planning application). Hopefully this won't take too long to kick in.

Some info here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-33777465

 

[Seasidesage]

Don't wish them any ill but I sincerely hope we never play them again. Worst away trip I've ever been on. Mecca has more pubs...

 

[lizard]

My best mate is a Yeovil fan and we have talked in depth about the problems there and he basically believes it to be a lack of money and the hangover from the championship where their increased costs were not matched by adequate increase in revenue. Last season he feared as they let go of all their talent as the wages were an issue and were left scrapping around for bargain basement third tier players, this season the same but a league lower. He really fears for their future and is fully expecting them to drop out of the league this season. From the matches he's been to, he says they are woeful. Poor times for him.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

It's what happens when you don't have a rich benefactor able to bank-roll the club. They get decent attendances considering but when the total population of Yeovil is only around 40,000 you are always going to be an uphill struggle.

I think this post says it all really. I've liked Yeovil ever since their non league days, but Yeovil are a small town club, with small town money to spend, and unless a rich benefactor rolls into town, that will always be the case.

Their meteoric rise into the Championship a couple of seasons ago amazed everyone I think, and they just weren't set up to succeed at their new level, so instant relegation isn't surprising really.

I sincerely wish them all the best in what must surely be a fight for Football League survival this season.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Mecca has more pubs...

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Without doubt the worst away trip on the calendar, so I wasn't too sorry to see them relegated from the Championship. Shocking collapse since then though, they just haven't been able to arrest that downward spiral. Sturrocks got his work cut out there.

On the flip side they are my closest league club so will be sad if they drop out as I always hope we draw them away in the cup

 

[Easy 10]

On the flip side they are my closest league club so will be sad if they drop out as I always hope we draw them away in the cup

I've only been once. Never, ever again. A crowd of less than 6k, and it STILL took over an hour to get out of that poxy carpark. Sorry, field.

 

[severnside gull]

Had they not been promoted to the Championship they could still be tootling along quite comfortably in League One.
The added costs destroyed them and their subsequent demise is the outcome. Sadly worse beckons.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I've only been once. Never, ever again. A crowd of less than 6k, and it STILL took over an hour to get out of that poxy carpark. Sorry, field.

I've been twice. Once by car, once by train. Either is a nightmare. Once you get past Hampshire, the roads are like something out of the 19th Century. And the car park is, as you say, akin to trying to get out of Bluewater on Christmas Eve.

The train is even worse. Up to London, across country which takes a ridiculously long time, then ending up at Yeovil Junction, which isn't even in Yeovil. Then you have to get a bus or taxi into the town, with it's single (Wetherspoons) pub, followed by another to the ground which is up there with the worst of out of town locations. It makes the Amex look like a bustling city centre haven of activity, such is its spot in the middle of a housing estate/ collection of industrial units. On the return, once you finally make it back to Yeovil Junction, there is one train PER HOUR back to London, and the first one to leave is (inevitably) fractionally too early for any away fans to make, unless you leave Huish Park by teleportation.

Even for relative locals, it's a crappy trip. I believe it took Bozza & Nail-Z Gull over two & a half hours to get there by train last time, and they travelled from the Bristol area, i.e. in the same bloody COUNTY as Yeovil.

 

[Easy 10]

I've been twice. Once by car, once by train. Either is a nightmare. Once you get past Hampshire, the roads are like something out of the 19th Century. And the car park is, as you say, akin to trying to get out of Bluewater on Christmas Eve.

The train is even worse. Up to London, across country which takes a ridiculously long time, then ending up at Yeovil Junction, which isn't even in Yeovil. Then you have to get a bus or taxi into the town, with it's single (Wetherspoons) pub, followed by another to the ground which is up there with the worst of out of town locations. It makes the Amex look like a bustling city centre haven of activity, such is its spot in the middle of a housing estate/ collection of industrial units. On the return, once you finally make it back to Yeovil Junction, there is one train PER HOUR back to London, and the first one to leave is (inevitably) fractionally too early for any away fans to make, unless you leave Huish Park by teleportation.

Even for relative locals, it's a crappy trip. I believe it took Bozza & Nail-Z Gull over two & a half hours to get there by train last time, and they travelled from the Bristol area, i.e. in the same bloody COUNTY as Yeovil.

Nicely summed up.

I've been to Tibetan monasteries that were more easily accessible than Huish Park.

 

[atfc village]

A nightmare journey ,one i'm not looking forward too next season. Much rather York come down.